I have always been an idealist. Shchedrovitsky G.P.

A multi -volume edition of the works of the philosopher and methodologist G.P. Shchedrovitsky begins with this book. It included the memoirs of Georgy Petrovich about time and about himself, they were recorded on a tape recorder 44 years ago.

In the 1980s, the magazine “Knowledge-Power” began the cycle of publications on the figures of Soviet psychology; Georgy Petrovich reacted critically to them, saw many mistakes, conscious or unconscious, a lot of absurdities and excessive complimentation. He began these conversations with Irina Pruss (relative of the Davydov family), recalled and talked about his meetings with outstanding Soviet psychologists. Nikolai Schukin, then a young man who worked at the Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology of the USSR APN on Mokhova, came to the country of Georgy Petrovich and became interested in a conversation with Irina. Schukin began to be on Sundays in Bolshevo, where these conversations were conducted. The first of them began with the memoirs of Georgy Petrovich about famous domestic psychologists, then these conversations turned into memories and thoughts of their own path and people with whom there were meetings, friendship, quarrels.

alive filled with colorful details and The bright, insightful characteristics of the story about the family, about school and student years, about friends and enemies, about like -minded people and opponents are combined with reflection on life. Someone will allow someone to make these conversations, and to someone to clarify the idea of ​​G.P. Shchedrovitsky as a creative person and a person who was looking for his path.